"But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. â€”Charlie"

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Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2010). “This World We Live In”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#Blessing Quotes #Past Quotes #Remember Quotes

“Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.”

Source : "Taking The Arab Freedom Movement Global Through Song" by Stephan Said, progressive.org. February 13, 2011.
“All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew”
“People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.”
“If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.”
“The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.”
“Once you do a piece on the stage, you become that poem or you become that piece. That's really who you are. I think that's why some artists have stage names, you know? I don't have a stage name, it's pretty much just me.”
“It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.”
“When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You can blend in with them there. You're bound to see someone more nervous than you are in a library. Sometimes the librarians themselves are more nervous than you are. I'll probably be a librarian for that reason. Then if I'm nervous on the job, it won't show. I'll just stamp books and look things up for people and run back and forth to the staff room sneaking smokes until I get hold of myself. A library is a great place to hid.”

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